One for the Christmas list: this "Pro Gamer" controller from Saitek looks to increase gamers' efficiency in FPS, RTS
and RPG games by reducing players' travels across the keyboard to a series of presses on a single-handed device. With
21 buttons and a 4-way switch, apparently 144 programmable commands are possible (we're still trying to find the other
60), and game profiles are downloadable from Saitek to save you
the trouble of programming them yourself.
The name may be somewhat optimistic since the product is not endorsed by any
professional gamers, nor does it seem to be used by
any—possibly because it looks like something you may find in the prosthetics department of a hospital, rather than
at the CPL finals. Also, we're sure players will be using
a mouse with the other hand, but one-handed devices have something inherently dodgy about them from the get-go.
